TY - ABST T1 - “Must Earth Intervene in Company Towns: In the Asteroid Belt, exploited workers are working in dangerous conditions” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Patrick S. Tomlinson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The sub-title tells the story. With Earth law not extending into space, workers are both directly exploited by being required to live in company housing and buy from company stores and treated as expendable parts.

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/opinion/future-space-mining.html. U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

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Online

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